'Ask InternetSafety.com' Launched in Honor of Internet Safety Month, Enabling Parents...

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Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:15am EDT

'Ask InternetSafety.com' Launched in Honor of Internet Safety Month, Enabling
Parents to Submit Questions about Online Safety

ATLANTA, June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A new 'Ask InternetSafety.com' feature
launched on the company blog (blog.internetsafety.com) in honor of Internet
Safety Month enables parents and other interested parties to submit questions
about any aspect of online safety, ranging from Internet predators,
pornography and social networking dangers to cyberbullying, 'sexting' and
typosquatting. Questions submitted at
blog.internetsafety.com/ask-internetsafetydotcom/ will be answered by the
InternetSafety.com team. The top questions and answers will be posted
anonymously on the blog to help others who have similar concerns.

The company has also assembled a panel of Internet safety experts to support
the company's overall online safety efforts. Panel members include Donna Rice
Hughes, President of Enough is Enough and internationally known Internet
safety expert and advocate; Dave Ramsey, radio talk show host and online
safety advocate; Craig Gross, founder of pornography addiction ministry
XXXChurch; Kathy Peel, CEO of Family Manager Coaching; and Sameer Hindjua,
founder of www.cyberbullying.us. Panel members and their credentials are
listed on the InternetSafety.com site under the "Resources" tab.  

The 'Ask InternetSafety.com' feature complements the blog recently introduced
to provide a central source of information on the latest online safety threats
and developments. Every day, blog administrators evaluate as many as 200
articles related to Internet safety issues and then distill the most important
news to a few paragraphs several times a week. Recent blog posts have covered
topics ranging from the firestorm over easy pornography access on Microsoft's
new Bing search engine to a new study showing a correlation between
provocative pictures posted on social networking sites and online
solicitations of the girls who post them.

InternetSafety.com also distributes breaking news and news briefs related to
online safety through Twitter and Facebook. Users can sign up for Twitter
tweets, the company's Facebook fan page and/or an RSS feed on the "Follow Us"
menu on the site's blog.   

In addition, the company is posting an online safety tip every day during
Internet Safety Month. On June 1, for example, the tip involved how to limit
access to children's pictures on Facebook. Each tip is available through all
of the company's Web 2.0 channels.

"Our goal is to serve as a central resource for people who are concerned about
the less desirable side of the Internet, whether it's parents trying to
protect their children or employers trying to control pornography use at the
office," said InternetSafety.com CEO Forrest Collier. "By helping people stay
informed as well as providing practical suggestions for handling Internet
issues, we hope to make a contribution toward keeping the Internet safe for
all users."

About InternetSafety.com 
InternetSafety.com has been a leading provider of web filtering solutions for
consumers and businesses since 1999. The company's flagship software, Safe
Eyes, is the two-time recipient of the PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award,
earned a separate Editor's Choice Award from LAPTOP Magazine, and was rated as
the #1 parental control solution by America's leading consumer advocacy
publication. Other products include Safe Eyes Mobile(TM), the first
family-safe browser for the iPhone, and EtherShield(R), a hardware appliance
offering plug-and-play Internet filtering for business environments. The
company's products are used by customers in more than 150 countries. For more
information, visit www.internetsafety.com.



SOURCE  InternetSafety.com

Molly Antos, +1-847-415-9327, mantos@sspr.com, for InternetSafety.com
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